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Delegation of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, bearing gifts to the Assyrian ruler Shalmaneser III, c. 840 BCE, on the Black Obelisk, British Museum. The scriptural basis for the idea of lost tribes is 2 Kings 17:6: "In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away unto Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and in Habor, on the river of Gozan, and in the ...
The Book of Revelation gives a list of the twelve tribes. However, the Tribe of Dan is omitted while Joseph is mentioned alongside Manasseh. In the vision of the Heavenly Jerusalem, the tribes' names (the names of the twelve sons of Jacob) are written on the city gates (Ezekiel 48:30–35 & Revelation 21:12–13).
Bukharan Jews contain descendants from the Tribe of Naphtali and the Tribe of Issachar of the Ten Lost Tribes, [2] who were exiled during the Assyrian captivity of Israel in the 7th century BCE. [3] Isakharov (in different spellings) is a common surname.
A week into the journey he met a community of indigenous people who identified themselves to him as the Lost Tribes of Israel. Montezinos, who was originally known as Aharon Levi, was startled and ...
According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tribe of Manasseh (/ m ə ˈ n æ s ə /; Hebrew: שֵׁבֶט מְנַשֶּׁה Ševet Mənašše, Tiberian: Šēḇeṭ Mănašše) [1] was one of the twelve tribes of Israel. After the catastrophic Assyrian invasion of 720 BCE, it is counted as one of the ten lost tribes.
The tribe of Issachar advised the others to bring six covered wagons and twelve oxen (Num. 7:3) on which to load the parts of the Tabernacle (Num. R. 7:19). The 200 chiefs of Issachar (I Chron. 12:32) were leaders of the Sanhedrin, whose decisions were implicitly accepted by their brethren (Gen. R. 72:5, 98:17).
The Kingdom of Israel was conquered by the Neo-Assyrian Empire around 720 BCE. [122] The records of Sargon II of Assyria indicate that he deported part of the population to Assyria. This deportation became the basis for the Jewish idea of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.
In an Islamic context, Bani Isra'il (Arabic: بني إسرائيل Banī Isrā'īl "The children of Israel") (Biblical Hebrew: b'nei yisrael, בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל) refers to the children of Jacob. It is also used to refer to: Descendants of the 12 sons of Jacob, including Joseph; Ten Lost Tribes; Twelve Tribes of Israel. In this ...